Monday, February 20, 2012

With four conference games remaining, Florida State, Duke and North
Carolina have clearly separated themselves at the top of the ACC. All
three teams are 10-2, and all will be vying during the next week and a
half to secure the top seed in the conference basketball tournament. The Tar Heels,
though, have the most difficult road.

A look at the remaining schedules for each team:

UNC: at N.C. State, at Virginia, Maryland, at Duke

Duke: at Florida State, Virginia Tech, at Wake Forest, UNC

Florida State: Duke, at Miami, at Virginia, Clemson

As you can see, the Tar Heels are the only team among these three that
will go on the road three times over the final four games. All of those
road games will be challenging, and Maryland played the Heels tough in
College Park earlier this month.

The “easiest” way for North Carolina to win the regular-season title: Duke beats
Florida State on Thursday, and then defeats the Hokies and Demon
Deacons. Then UNC wins its next three, setting up a Duke-UNC
regular-season finale for first place. It’d be fun.

Yes, that's how it works...when you have a HISTORY of winning National Championships that's what happens...like it or not. UNC and Duke are now and always will be the class of the ACC and college basketball. Dispute it all you want, but you know it's TRUE. Lol...

UNC will win the ACC. UNC will not lose another game in the regular season. NCSU stinks/UVA not very good...already beat these teams easily. UM has 1 good player-win that game as well. Will beat Duke by 10 in Cameron. Get some!

Gotta love the UNC fans' confidence. They lose in the Smith Center to Duke (great game by the way), yet they fully expect to go into Cameron and win by double digits. Then they say the FSU team that beat them by 33 points doesn't have a chance to beat Miami or Virginia. I guess Walmart does sell the best tasting koolaid.

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David Scott has been with the Observer for 28 years and has written about ACC, SEC and other college sports in the Charlotte region. He covers Wake Forest, South Carolina and college soccer for the Observer and (Raleigh) News & Observer.

J.P. Giglio covers the ACC for the News & Observer, where he has worked since 1997, and the Observer.

Andrew Carter covers the North Carolina Tar Heels for the Observer and News & Observer.

Laura Keeley covers the Duke Blue Devils for the Observer and News & Observer. Follow her on Twitter.

Chip Alexander covers the Carolina Hurricanes and college football for the News & Observer, where he has worked since 1979, and the Observer.

Luke DeCock has worked for The News & Observer since 2000. He covered the Carolina Hurricanes and the NHL before becoming a sports columnist for the Observer and News & Observer in August 2008.

Tim Crothers is an author and former senior writer at Sports Illustrated who is joining the sports staff to write a regular column during the rest of the college basketball season.